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If you have ever installed new hardware on your WIN95 system you have visited the Control Panel via START, Settings, Control Panel route. After winding your way up, down, and around the Control panel you can usually find the item needed to perform the required task.

Two operations I wanted to do frequently were (a) to determine how much free space remained on my logical drives and (b) what was the release level of various software applications.

In my search I found a handy-dandy program hidden in WIN95 that provided more information than I wanted in a form that was easy to use. That program is Msinfo32.exe, the location of which you can find using START, Find. Note: WIN98 has a Msinfo32.exe but the information window displays are different than those illustrated in this article.

Upon execution of Msinfo32 we get the window "Microsoft System Information" (Illustration 1) with the system information displayed in Microsoft Explorer format. Behold, there were my ten logical hard drives listed with their available drive space I did note that the windows version displayed was 4.0. The real version/release level was 4.00.950 B obtained by clicking on START, Settings, Control Panel, System.

Left click on "Printing" (Illustration 2) displayed the default printer and all the printer drivers and their release levels.

Left click on "OLE Registration, Registry Settings" (Illustration 3) displayed the release level of all the OLE components in the system.

Left click on "Applications Running" (Illustration 4) displayed all the applications running.

Left click on "Registry Settings" under Graphic Filters (Illustration 5) displayed all the graphic filters available for different file extensions like CGM, JPEG, EPS, etc.

Anyone wanting to become more familiar with the WIN95 operating system should want to begin with Msinfo32 on their own PC. Investigate the other options available in msinfo32 and discover additional information about your WIN95 operating system.

 

 

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